LOBBY DAY
The Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (VICFA) is convening on the General Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 27 in Richmond to lobby for a proposed constitutional amendment…
LAND EXPO 4
This is the fourth installment of highlights from the Land Investment Expo in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday earlier this week. I was the lunch speaker; I'm reporting on what others said. The closing speaker of the day was Marco Papic, a macro and geopolitical strategist…
LAND EXPO 3
I'm going to lump two speakers at the Land Investment Expo in Des Moines Tuesday together. The fourth and final installment of these will come tomorrow…
LAND EXPO 2
Wow, I don't know when I've been more blessed with so many positive comments yesterday regarding my synopsis of the opening speaker at the Land Investment Expo on Tuesday. I feel like I'm back in my old journalism persona…
LAND EXPO
Yesterday I spoke at the LAND INVESTMENT EXPO in Des Moines, Iowa, a consortium of heavy hitting money managers that invest in farm land and all things big agriculture. I was the maverick in the speaker lineup but grateful to speak to nearly 2,000 mostly conventional corn and bean farmers in the midwest…
ACKNOWLEDGE THE WIN
Those of us who have kind of given up on anything good from the government need to take this moment to acknowledge a win. This week's release of the new Dietary Guidelines is truly monumental and represents a major step toward truth in food recommendations…
EXPERT INSANITY
Happy New Year everyone. I've been hunkered down over Christmas cranking out the rough draft of another book: FOOD EMANCIPATION: Unshackling America's Sustenance. More on that in the future…
BEEF PRICES
President Trump now officially plans to print $12 billion (money that does not exist) and throw it at soybean farmers suffering from price collapse due to China's retaliation over tariffs…
ROGUE FOOD, FARMING, FINANCE
Since John Moody and I started the Rogue Food Conferences (RFC) in February 2020, we've held two per year and moved them all over the country. The next one, scheduled for Feb. 5, 6, and 7 is our first in the Great Plains: Rapid City, South Dakota…
TURKEYS AND TREES
I drive to the Charlottesville airport almost once a week and am writing this in Charlotte airport while waiting for my next leg to Dayton, Ohio to do a farm consult tomorrow…